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The Alfa Giulia is now sold so that just leaves the CLK-GTR boxed body set...anyone?
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I hear ya! I've got the wheel nuts in red and blue, and have got the tyre stickers too but not sure they'll fit. I would love to, but I haven't had much luck getting stickers to fit 24mm tyres. The profile is that bit lower than 26mm tyres and there doesn't seem to be enough room Of course, I could just be doing it wrong 😬
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Following on from this earlier post about the dilemma of finding the right 24mm rims for my Calsonic Skyline TB Evo III... Found 'em! In the end I didn't even need to wait for them to pop up on Japanese Yahoo, I found them in a hobby shop in HK They're close enough to the right design, certainly closer than anything Tamiya offers at 24mm. Next step...a coat of TS-26 to brighten them up and then some slow and patient work with a chrome pen to add a bit of detailing to the barrel and 'nuts'
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Cheers! I got the body set, inevitably, from Japanese Yahoo. Including fees and domestic shipping it was a tick over £60 and I managed to offset the international shipping by selling a few bits and bobs I shipped with it. Well worth the hassle though, I absolutely love it I also really love the blue / yellow Bilstein livery, I did something similar on an AMG GT3 shell that sits on my TB02-R bits-a-build using a sticker set I managed to get Nath at MCI to produce for me using a 1/24 decal set as a base and adding in lots of patience and a fair amount of arm twisting! Again, worth the hassle though 😊
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Tamiya 51471 Audi R8 LMS Body Set on a TA04-RR built entirely from parts with the addition of: upgraded one-piece diff joints carbon fibre front and rear damper stays carbon fibre battery straps silver aluminium steering arms
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Almost a full year after I last worked on this Audi R8 LMS shell, I finally finished it! It's a great fit on the TA04-RR bits-a-build, so that's another one finished 😀
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RC gallery (absolutely No words-pics only)
Juhunio replied to Nicadraus's topic in General discussions
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I'm on a roll... This morning I finally finished the stickering on this Audi R8 LMS. It's the 51471 body set, one of my absolute favourites of Tamiya's It sits on a TA04-RR bits-a-build...essentially a TA04-R built entirely from parts with Hop Up carbon fibre damper stays, diff joints and aluminium steering Another project finished
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With added pre-printed tyre lettering 😍
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Thanks Chris, this inspired me to do a bit of reading this afternoon. I found this article to be pretty good as a 'beginner's guide' https://www.dailysportscar.com/2020/03/18/rhapsody-in-blue-the-history-of-calsonic-and-nissan-racing.html
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Just had a look and you're right, that is a clear difference. The R33 body set is 50740, which looks like it uses 50739 rims or the super lovely 53131 aluminium versions That 58314 body set that @svenb has got looks different again...do you know what Skyline variant that is? Thanks very much 👍 The Gr.A Calsonic body set pops up on Japanese Yahoo fairly regularly for not too silly money. I've just seen an R33 set there though which was 'ouch!' money
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Thanks Steve! I'm no Nismo expert so I've found the whole Skyline body set thing a bit of a rabbit-hole TBH...particularly when it comes to finding the 'right' rims for each one (which is why I've got two sets of Skyline rims for sale on eBay right now 🙄) From what I can tell, in layman's terms compared to the R34, the R33 has a different design around the lights and intercooler, a longer panel behind the rear arches and sits on silver Y spoke rims That 58314 also has a different front end to the R34, and overall looks flatter...maybe a bit more squat and curvy around the front arches? I'm probably talking absolute bobbins and a true Nissan aficionado will come along with the real detail soon, but those are the differences I can see with mine eyes 👀
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Actually, guilty secret...I got an F-Pro David Jun NIB kit at a decent price from Japan and broke it out 😬 I already had a DJ chassis that I bought off eBay a couple of years ago and restored to mint (see earlier in the thread) but it came with no box or manual. So I bought the NIB kit from Japan and kept the box, manual, parts bag header cards and the black J Parts and sold everything else. After postage and fees I got back £35 more than I paid for it (including import shipping and fees). So the J Parts, box etc cost me nothing more than the time and effort to photograph and list everything...I'll take that!
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Front and rear light buckets fitted along with the transparent headlamp stickers from the 51365 body set, the only non-vintage stickers used
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Summer-time means painting time, the warm air making the garage a less terrible place to be and the paint behave more predictably than it does in the winter So I've been taking the opportunity to work on a few body shells and finish off some stickering to actually complete a couple of these bits-a-build projects First up, the TB Evo III... In the end I decided to make use of the R32 Gr.A body shell that I had drilled to fit the Surikarn body post positions and refit the Surikarn damper stays. It just made this Evo III that little bit more 'mine', essentially a blue-Surikarn: full Evo III blue conversion kit blue aluminium upper arm mounts Surikarn front and rear carbon damper stays aluminium rear uprights blue TB02-R damper cylinders blue aluminium front body posts TA05 blue aluminium battery mount posts reinforced ball diff joint hex head screws throughout Once I decided to use the R32 shell and vintage sticker sets to create the classic Calsonic livery, I also had to find some 24mm rims to match as 26mm rims are incompatible with the suspension There is a set of vintage Cross RC rims which are perfect but I got distracted and missed the end of a Japanese Yahoo auction so missed out on the only set I have seen so far. Another one will come up some day, so for now I've settled on these 47302 rims with pre-glued tyres which aren't too bad a substitute for the proper Nismo wheel design...they'll certainly do for now!
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Following on from an earlier post in this thread (A Tale of Two Skylines), I made a decision...to sell the finished vintage 50430 body set (now sold) and keep the other one that I had drilled for the Surikarn body posts on my TB Evo III bits-a-build. It is such a specific set up that I was unlikely to be able to sell it and there was no way I could just chuck it out, so I kind of had to make the best of it. This meant I needed to find suitable 24mm rims for the Evo III and in the end (at least for now) I have settled on these 47302 5-spoke white rims with pre-glued tyres They're not the worst match in the world for the R32 Gr.A in the short-medium term. I know there are some vintage Cross rims that will be perfect but having missed out on a set I need to wait for another to appear on the Japanese auctions But these look pretty good, particularly when placed side by side with my Calsonic R34 which I also just finished stickering over the weekend. Sitting on its correct 6-spoke white rims, the two make a pretty good looking pair I think
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Remember this? It already had a bit of a TRF vibe with the red aluminium pulleys, TRF dampers, belt, front universals, servo attachments, stabilisers and hardware. It also has a carbon steering link, carbon stabiliser holders, ball diffs, aluminium counter shafts and a few other goodies hidden under the gearcases Well, after a few months hunting down the necessary parts I'm ready to give it even more of that TA03 TeRriFicness with a full carbon conversion 😃 carbon upper and lower decks ridiculously hard to find J Parts in black even more ridiculously hard to find K parts, also in black (all hail the kit-breakers!) front one way to replace the front ball diff lovely red 5mm adjusters red aluminium kingpins aluminium heat sink all the necessary red hardware for the conversion Coming soon!